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education. i agree, education is key, particularly to the future of our economic economy. but our training programs, we have 47 house in the federal government, reporting to 8 agencies, overhead is overwhelming. we have to get the dollars back to the states and go to the workers so they can create their own pathways to get the training they need for jobs that will really help them. the secondary, taxation, we agree, we ought to bring the tax realities down, i do, both for corporations and for individuals. but in order to not lose revenue, and have the government running the money, i lower deductions and credits and exemptions to take in the same money when you account for growth. the third area, energy. energy is critical. and the president pointed out correctly that production of oil and gases in the u.s. is up. but not due to his policies. in spite of his policies. mr. president, all of the inies in -- the increase in natural gas and oil is on private land, not government land. on government l
education. i agree, education is key, particularly to the future of our economic economy. but our training programs, we have 47 house in the federal government, reporting to 8 agencies, overhead is overwhelming. we have to get the dollars back to the states and go to the workers so they can create their own pathways to get the training they need for jobs that will really help them. the secondary, taxation, we agree, we ought to bring the tax realities down, i do, both for corporations and for...
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education? does the federal government have a responsibility to improve the quality of public education in america? >> well, the primary responsibility for education is, of course, at the state and local level. but the federal government can play a very important role. i agree with secretary arnie duncan and the ideas he put forward on race to the top. some of them i agree with and congratulate him for pursuing. that the federal government can get local and state schools to do a better job. my own view, by the way, is i've added to that, i happen to believe i want the kids that are getting federal dlaz from idea or title one, thighs are disabled kids or poor kids or lower income kids, rather, i want them to be able to go to the school of their choice. so all federal funds, instead of going to the state or to the school district, i'd have go, if you will, follow the child and let the parent and the child decide where to send their student. >> how do you see the federal government's responsibility
education? does the federal government have a responsibility to improve the quality of public education in america? >> well, the primary responsibility for education is, of course, at the state and local level. but the federal government can play a very important role. i agree with secretary arnie duncan and the ideas he put forward on race to the top. some of them i agree with and congratulate him for pursuing. that the federal government can get local and state schools to do a better...
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education. i agree, education is key, particularly the future of our economy, but our training programs right now, 47 of them, housed in the federal government, reporting to eight different agencies, overhead is overwhelming, we have to get dollars back to the states and go to the workers so they can create their own pathways to create jobs that will really help them. the second area, taxation, we ought to bring the tax rates down. i do for corporates and individuals. but i also lower deductions, credits, exemptions, so you take in the same money for growth. the third area, energy. production of oil and gas in the u.s. is up. but not due to his policies. in spite of his policies. mr. president, all of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on private land. not on government land. on government land, your administration has cut the number of permits and licenses in half. if i'm president, i'll double them. and also get the oil from offshore and alaska, and i'll bring that pipeline in fr
education. i agree, education is key, particularly the future of our economy, but our training programs right now, 47 of them, housed in the federal government, reporting to eight different agencies, overhead is overwhelming, we have to get dollars back to the states and go to the workers so they can create their own pathways to create jobs that will really help them. the second area, taxation, we ought to bring the tax rates down. i do for corporates and individuals. but i also lower...
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romney cares about education. when he tells a student that you should borrow money from your parents to go to college, that indicates the degree to which there may not be as much of a focus on the fact that folks like myself, folks like michele, kids who probably attended the university of denver did not have that option. for us to make sure they have the opportunity and can walk through the door, that is vitally important not just to the kids, it is how we will grow the economy over the long term. >> we are running out of time. response to that. >>-- respnd to that. >> i have no plan to cut education funding and grants for people going to college. i am not planning on making changes there. you make a good point. the place you put your money makes it a clear indication on where your heart is. you put $90 million into green jobs. i am all in favor of green energy. that would have hired 2 million teachers. $90 billion. these businesses may have gone out of business -- a number of them happen to be owned by people wh
romney cares about education. when he tells a student that you should borrow money from your parents to go to college, that indicates the degree to which there may not be as much of a focus on the fact that folks like myself, folks like michele, kids who probably attended the university of denver did not have that option. for us to make sure they have the opportunity and can walk through the door, that is vitally important not just to the kids, it is how we will grow the economy over the long...
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i will not cut educating -- education funding. i do not have a plan to cut education funding. grants for people to go to college, i will continue to grow. you makk a very good point. the place you put your money makes a clear indication of where your heart is. you put $90 billion into green jobs. i am all in favor of green energy. $90 billion. that would have hired two million teachers. $90 billion. these businesses, many of them have gone out of business. about half of them you have invested and have gone into -- out of business. phe right course for america's government is not to become the pconomic player, picking winners and losers, telling people what kind of health treatment they health-care system that has existed in this country for a long, long time and has produced the best health records in the world -- world. it is how do we make the private sector become more efficient and effective. how do we get schools be more effective. which a great our schools so parents know which are succeeding so parents can takes kids to schools that are more successffl. i have had that
i will not cut educating -- education funding. i do not have a plan to cut education funding. grants for people to go to college, i will continue to grow. you makk a very good point. the place you put your money makes a clear indication of where your heart is. you put $90 billion into green jobs. i am all in favor of green energy. $90 billion. that would have hired two million teachers. $90 billion. these businesses, many of them have gone out of business. about half of them you have invested...
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education. it means that governor romney talked about medicaid and how we could send it back to the states but effectively, that means a 30% cut in the primary program we have for kids with disabilities, seniors in nursing homes. that is not a right strategy. >> way over the two minutes. >> sorry. >> governor, will you support simpson bowls? >> the president should have grabbed that -- >> do you support that? >> i have my own plan. not the same. but in my view, the president should have grabbed it, if he wanted to make adjustments to it, take it, go to congress, fight for you. >> that's what we've done. made adjustments to it and we're putting it to congress right now. >> you've been president four years. you said you'd cut the deficit in half, it's four years later, we still have trillion dollar deficits. we'll have it each of the next four years. if you are re-elected, we'll get to a trillion dollar debt. you have said before you'd cut the deficit in half. and i love this idea of $4 trillion i
education. it means that governor romney talked about medicaid and how we could send it back to the states but effectively, that means a 30% cut in the primary program we have for kids with disabilities, seniors in nursing homes. that is not a right strategy. >> way over the two minutes. >> sorry. >> governor, will you support simpson bowls? >> the president should have grabbed that -- >> do you support that? >> i have my own plan. not the same. but in my...
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first, education. i agree, education is key for the future of our economy. our training programs right now, 47 of them are housed in the federal government, reporting to eight difffrent agencies. we've got to get those dollars back to the states and go to the workers. the secondary, taxation. we agree, we have to bring the tax breaks down both for corporations and for individuals. in order to not lose revenue, also lowered deductions and credits and exemptions so we can take in the same amount of money when you account for growth. the third area, energy. energy is critical, and production of oil and gas in the u.s. is up, but not due to his policies, in spite of his policies. mr. president, all the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on private land, not on government land. on government land, your administration has cut the number of permits and licenses in half. i am president, i will double them, and also get the oil from offshore and alaska, and i will bring that pipeline in from canada. by the way, i like coal. people in the coal industry feel
first, education. i agree, education is key for the future of our economy. our training programs right now, 47 of them are housed in the federal government, reporting to eight difffrent agencies. we've got to get those dollars back to the states and go to the workers. the secondary, taxation. we agree, we have to bring the tax breaks down both for corporations and for individuals. in order to not lose revenue, also lowered deductions and credits and exemptions so we can take in the same amount...
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first education. i agree. education is key. but our training programs right now, we have 47 of them housed in the federal government reporting to eight different agencies, we have got to get those dollars back to the states and go to the workers so they can create their own pathways to get in the training they need for jobs that will really help them. taxation, we agree we ought to bring the tax rates down and i do. but in order for us not to lose revenue, i also lower deductions in credits and exemptions so we keep taking in the same money when you account for growth. the third area energy. energy is critical. and the president pointed out correctly, that production of oil and gas in the u.s. is up, but not due to his policies. in spite of his policies. all of the increase in natural gas and oil has hand on private land not government langd. your administration has cut the number of permits and licenses in half on government land. if i'm president i'll double them. and bring the pipeline in from canada. and i'm going to make s
first education. i agree. education is key. but our training programs right now, we have 47 of them housed in the federal government reporting to eight different agencies, we have got to get those dollars back to the states and go to the workers so they can create their own pathways to get in the training they need for jobs that will really help them. taxation, we agree we ought to bring the tax rates down and i do. but in order for us not to lose revenue, i also lower deductions in credits and...
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education. i agree, education is key, particularly the future of our economy, but our training programs right flow we've got 47 of them housed in the federal government reporting to eight different agency. overhead is overwhelming. we've got to get the dollars back to the state and go to the workers to create their own pathways to train for the jobs that will really help them. the second area, taxation. we agree, we ought to bring the tax rates down, and i do both for corporation corporations anr individuals. but in order for not to lose revenue and have the government run out of money i lower deductions and credits and exempt yons so we keep taking in the same money when you also account for growth. the third area, energy, energy is critical and the president pointed out correctly that production of oil and gas in the u.s. is up. but not due to his policies. in spite of his policies. mr. president, all of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on private land, not on government land.
education. i agree, education is key, particularly the future of our economy, but our training programs right flow we've got 47 of them housed in the federal government reporting to eight different agency. overhead is overwhelming. we've got to get the dollars back to the state and go to the workers to create their own pathways to train for the jobs that will really help them. the second area, taxation. we agree, we ought to bring the tax rates down, and i do both for corporation corporations...
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education. governor bush. both of you have promised dramatically to change -- to change dramatically public education in this country. of the public money spent on education, only 6% of that is federal money. you want to change 100% of the public education with 6% of the money, is that possible? >> we can make a huge difference by saying if you receive federal money we expect you to show results. let me give you a story about public education, if i might. it's about kipp academy in houston, texas. a charter school run by some people from teach for america. young folks saying i'm going to do something good for my country. i want to teach. a guy named michael runs the school. it is a school full of so-called at-risk children. it's how we unfortunately label certain children. basically it means they can't learn. it's a school of strong discipline and high standards. it's one of the best schools in houston. here are the key ingredients. high expectations, strong accountabily. what michael says, don't put all these
education. governor bush. both of you have promised dramatically to change -- to change dramatically public education in this country. of the public money spent on education, only 6% of that is federal money. you want to change 100% of the public education with 6% of the money, is that possible? >> we can make a huge difference by saying if you receive federal money we expect you to show results. let me give you a story about public education, if i might. it's about kipp academy in...
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department of education. what is the specific solution to the declining affordability of education? >> i will tell you it's not to eliminate the department of education. that's what congressman akin wants to do. what we did is we took the middle man out of the student loan and ok that cut that they were making with no risk. we took that money and increased the amount of the pell grant which allows more kids to get to college. this is the land the opportunity. this is where we believe that anybody can do anything and personal freedom is very important but to get to that next lad dar, there's a lot of families that can't get their kids to college. i don't want to shut that door for them. it's important, i think, we keep the pell grants in place. it's a big contrast between me and congressman akin. we have to pay attention to student tuition. it is i think, bad that we are not investing more in higher education at the state and local level. unlike many others, we should raise the cigarette tax. i'm embarrassed that the cigarette tax is the lowest in the country. our cigarette tax is 17
department of education. what is the specific solution to the declining affordability of education? >> i will tell you it's not to eliminate the department of education. that's what congressman akin wants to do. what we did is we took the middle man out of the student loan and ok that cut that they were making with no risk. we took that money and increased the amount of the pell grant which allows more kids to get to college. this is the land the opportunity. this is where we believe that...
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certainly education and training is crucial. if these young americans don't have the skills that make them attractive to employees, they're not going to get jobs. the next thing is to try to get more entrepreneurship in business within the reach of minorities so that these businesses are located in the communities in which they're found. the other thing is, we need the business community as well as government heavily involved in these communities to try to get economic growth. there is no question that the poor are worse off. i think the president genuinely believes that they're better off. but the figures show that about 8 million more people are below the poverty line than 4 years ago. how you can cut school lunches, how you can cut student assistance, how you can cut housing, how you can cut disability benefits, how you can do all of these things and then the people receiving them -- for example, the disabled, who have no alternative -- how they're going to do better, i don't know. now, we need a tight budget, but there's no
certainly education and training is crucial. if these young americans don't have the skills that make them attractive to employees, they're not going to get jobs. the next thing is to try to get more entrepreneurship in business within the reach of minorities so that these businesses are located in the communities in which they're found. the other thing is, we need the business community as well as government heavily involved in these communities to try to get economic growth. there is no...
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-- on excellence in education. and today, without the federal government being involved other than passing on to them, the school districts, the words from that commission, we find 35 states with task forces now dealing with their educational problems. we find that schools are extending the curriculum to now have forced teaching of mathematics and science and so forth. all of these things have brought an improvement in the college entrance exams for the first time in some 20 years. so, i think that many democrats are seeing the same thing this democrat saw -- the leadership isn't taking us where we want to go. >> mr. president, much of what you said affects the quality of life of many americans -- their income, the way they live, and so forth -- but there's an aspect to quality of life that lies beyond the private sector which has to do with our neighborhoods, our cities, our streets, our parks, our environment. in those areas, i have difficulty seeing what your program is and what you feel the federal responsibili
-- on excellence in education. and today, without the federal government being involved other than passing on to them, the school districts, the words from that commission, we find 35 states with task forces now dealing with their educational problems. we find that schools are extending the curriculum to now have forced teaching of mathematics and science and so forth. all of these things have brought an improvement in the college entrance exams for the first time in some 20 years. so, i think...
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going to take awhile to educate. but it is a good program. so her best help for short term is job retraining, if she was thrown out of work at a defense plant. but tell her it's not all that gloomy. we're the united states. we have faced tough problems before. look at the misery index when the democrats had both the white house and the congress. it was just right through the roof. now, we can do better. and the way to do better is not to tax and spend but to retrain, get that control of the mandatory spending programs. i'm much more optimistic about this country than some. >> mr. perot? [applause] mr. perot, you have one minute, sir. >> defense industries are going to have to convert to civilian industries. many of them are. and the sooner they start, the sooner they'll finish. and there will be a significant transition. and it's very important that we not continue to let our industrial base deteriorate. we had someone who i'm sure regrets said it in the president's staff said he didn't care whether we made potato ch
going to take awhile to educate. but it is a good program. so her best help for short term is job retraining, if she was thrown out of work at a defense plant. but tell her it's not all that gloomy. we're the united states. we have faced tough problems before. look at the misery index when the democrats had both the white house and the congress. it was just right through the roof. now, we can do better. and the way to do better is not to tax and spend but to retrain, get that control of the...